Neither the ACNA nor the Book of Common Prayer in our hands today is a present-day import from England. Our Prayer Book, like our Church, has been a native, naturalized inhabitant since 1789.
Book Review: Christian History, Volumes 1 & 2
Christian History, Volume 1 and 2, serve as a superb introduction to Christian history. They are written honestly and accessibly without losing their depth.
Why Anglicans Bow in Worship: A Rookie Anglican Guide
Bodily gestures like bowing cultivate inward devotion. Reverence shown externally helps train reverence internally. Our liturgical rituals are modes of teaching ourselves—bodily habits shape the soul.
St. Dunstan: Archbishop with a Monastic Heart
Amid the turbulence of the 10th century in England, a humble monk rose up to reform and reshape the English Church, eventually even becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. St. Dunstan’s life illustrates a truth seen throughout Christian history: periods of renewal often begin in prayer, discipline, and holiness. Only then can they reshape institutions or kingdoms….
First Clement: A Church Father’s Love of Scripture and Grace
If one were to believe certain corners of the internet, the Apostolic Fathers exist primarily as Catholic bait. The claim is simple: read them honestly, and you will inevitably discover that Protestantism is a tragic misunderstanding foisted upon the Church sometime between Constantine and Luther. The Fathers, we are told, clearly believed in a sacerdotal…
The Anglican Poet-Priests
Anglicanism’s beautiful use of language has shaped the many Christian believers it has discipled. There should be no surprise, then, that the Anglican tradition has produced centuries of poets among its adherents—even its very clergy.
Book Review: That Blessed Liberty
Miles Smith, IV, and Adam Carrington. That Blessed Liberty: Episcopal Bishops and the Development of the American Republic, 1789–1860. Prolego Press, 2025. 179 pp. Between the surrender at Yorktown and the first shots at Sumter, the United States did more than construct a constitutional order. It also quietly and often anxiously reshaped its religious life….
St. Joseph and the Virtues of Silence
Saint Joseph was the head of the holy family and an indispensable figure in sacred history. Yet one of the most striking qualities of Joseph in the gospels is his silence.
Why Was St. Gregory So Great?
Who is St. Gregory, what makes him so great, and why do Christians, specifically Anglicans, celebrate him 1,400 years after his death?
John and Charles Wesley: Anglicans with Kindled Hearts
On March 3rd, we celebrate the feast of John and Charles Wesley, two Anglican priests credited as the founders of Methodism, but whose lifelong loyalties lay with the Church of England, from which they never formally left. The Anglican Church in North America recognizes them as “Reformers of the Church” (2019 Book of Common Prayer,…
From Episcopal to Anglican: The Beauty of Biblical Faithfulness
Where the Episcopal Church had a rich legacy of historic buildings, the ACNA seemed to be building for the future. It had a missional energy, an ethos of going out and proclaiming the pure gospel to a needy world.
Book Review: Reading the Bible with Ten Church Fathers
Gerald Bray, Reading the Bible with Ten Church Fathers: How to Interpret, Teach, and Preach Like the Early Christians. Baker, 2026. 224 pp. Anglican theology has long understood the reading of Scripture to be a communal and historical act, shaped not only by the text itself but by the Church’s faithful reception of it across…
